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This case file includes warrants and an indictment documenting the case against Robert Anderson for taking trees and timber, worth $500, belonging to the Miami tribe in Lykins County (present day Miami County), Kansas Territory between February 25, 1859 and May of 1859. Anderson was indicted for the crime during the May term of 1859 by the 3rd U.S. District Court in Fort Scott, Kansas Territory. The influx of white settlers beginning in 1854 with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska act resulted in increased encroachment and destruction of property promised to a variety of Indian nations. The Miami tribe was promised 500,000 acres in what is now Miami county by treaty with the U.S. government in 1839.
Date: crime February 1859; indictment May 1859
Item Number: 444721
Call Number: Kansas Territory Criminal Case Files, Box 4, Folder 15
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 444721
Collections - State Archives - U. S. District Court of Kansas (Kansas Territory) - Criminal Case Files
Date - 1854-1860 - 1859
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime - Theft
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Courts - United States District Courts
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Courts - Third Judicial District
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Case file
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Record, Judicial
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Warrant
People - American Indians - Indian lands
People - American Indians - Tribes - Miami
Places - Cities and towns - Fort Scott
Places - Counties - Bourbon
Places - Counties - Lykins (1855-1861)
Places - Counties - Miami
Places - Indian reservations - Miami
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Case files
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/444721